"Monks, a lay follower should not engage in five types of business. Which five? Business in weapons, business in human beings, business in meat, business in intoxicants, and business in poison.“These are the five types of business that a lay follower should not engage in.”

For most of us who are already in the job … I thought this is a good way to set our intention:
With this, most jobs can become virtuous!

"When you go to work, think,

I must achieve awakening in order to lead each and every sentient being to awakening.
Therefore, I am going to offer service for sentient beings by going to work. May whoever comes in contact with the results of my work have a peaceful mind and generate bodhicitta.

While you are at work, remember the kindness of the other sentient beings who gave you the job and who make it possible for you to earn a living.
Thinking in this way helps to avoid generating destructive emotions such as anger at work."

I must achieve awakening in order to lead each and every sentient being to awakening.
Therefore, I am going to offer service for sentient beings by going to work. May whoever comes in contact with the results of my work have a peaceful mind and generate bodhicitta.

wah, normal people won’t think like dat.
most just think about how to make our own work easier… and get more pay… then go home.

As a librarian in the national library in Singapore, you won’t be involved in the business in weapons, human beings, meat, intoxicants and poisons. You can’t even sell the books in the library, and with the law in Singapore, the contents of the books should be of healthy context, so very safe!

Some years back when I met our compassionate Abbot Venerable Jing Yuan, he learnt that I am in the beauty line, he told me that my job does not simply involves cleaning customer’s face, I can even help to cleanse and purify customer’s mind thru sharing of Buddha’s teachings.

He also told my hubby, who is a real-estate agent, to visualise that every client who he recommends to buy and sell house, will have a home like pureland where buddha & bodhichitta resides in.

So every job is a good job as long as we have the right aspirations and set the right intentions.

Upon listen to this, we felt sooooo motivated & find new meaning to our job as though its a very noble and virtuous job!

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A reminder that every little act of kindness matters:

“There was this boy I taught in Primary 2, who came in shoes with flapping soles,” she said. “I asked him: ‘Do you have a new pair?’ And he said yes, but it never appeared. He just put rubber bands on to tie it up.

“I knew he didn’t have them, so I just decided to buy him a new pair of shoes. And four years later, when he was getting his results, he came up to me and said: ‘Teacher, I’ll never forget you. You were the one who bought me that pair of shoes.’"

Also, a good reminder to myself when working with my kids:

“The first thing they tell me is: ‘Teacher, I’m going to fail’,” she said. “'We have been failing since Primary 1, how can you expect us to pass?’”

“So I always tell them that it’s not about passing, it’s about putting in your best effort. It’s not about getting your four As,” she added. “If this is your best, I accept it and I am still very proud of you.”